VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0483

critical
Published 2016-01-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u105, 7u91, and 8u66; Java SE Embedded 8u65; and JRockit R28.3.8 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to AWT. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this is a heap-based buffer overflow in the readImage function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted image data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0483

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert_us@oracle.com — http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0483.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
debian debiansidfixed8u72-b15-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oraclejdk1.6.0
oraclejdk1.7.0
oraclejdk1.8.0
oraclejre1.6.0
oraclejre1.7.0
oraclejre1.8.0
oraclejrockitr28.3.8

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.